December 2012 2 It’s a tough world. INDEX A girl goes out and busts her P.3-6 Masterpieces gut, runs a World Record Half Mara- P.7 Springvale Happenings thon, not a prissy little 60 metre P.7 VMA Marathon Results sprint, and she finds out that the P.8 Landy Trophy starts a busy year WMA doesn’t recognise Half Mara- P.9 Living Legends thon records. I might say that this P.10 Andy Salter Memorial Relay “girl” is 55 and her name is Stacey P.11 Lindsay Thomas Memorial Run Van Dueren. P.11 Letters/Emails I reckon the Half Marathon is a very popular P.12-18 VMA Results for Pan Pacs distance and while it’s not an Olympic event, it is an P.19-23 Retrospective - Gateshead ‘99 event that we should keep records for even if they are P.24-25 Introducing - Max Brook called “World’s Best”. C’mon VMA and AMA, have a word P.26 VMA Multis Entry Form and Details to WMA and get some justice for SVD, FGS (for goodness P.27-28 Clyde’s New Record Report sake). P.28 Knox Venue Challenge - Browne Shield Great news, in that we have launched a new Ven- P.29-30 Landy Trophy Entry Form and Details ue in the Cranbourne region. Paul Olsson has seen the P.31 AMA Half Marathon need for a Venue at Casey Fields and with the massive P.32 VMA Membership Form growth in that area I’m sure we can make a success of P.33 Venue Managers it. Monday the 26th November was the first night of the P.34 Venues new Venue and seeing Kath was going to Garden Club, I P.35 Committee etc. thought if I climbed out the bathroom window, I could be back before she got home and she would never know. No wait a minute, I need her to wash my stuff - I’d bet- ter tell her. Anyhow, there were over 30 people there. Well, everyone there was over 30, but there were more NAG FILE than 30 of them. All of our Venues started as a result of Athletes Moving into a New Age Group someone’s vision and if you went down one Monday, you would be supporting Paul and your club. JIM SHAND into M75 You’ll notice there are three Croydon stories JUDITH WINES LM into W75 and photos again this issue. These are just the everyday JOHN HALLO into M70 stories that I will happily report from other Venues as DENIS KEARNEY into M70 well. All you have to do is to send me information and I JOHN POCOCK into M70 will use it. This right extends to anyone, not only Venue KEVIN ESMORE into M65 managers. PATRICIA GRAHAM into W65 A few weeks ago I was faced with about 20 blanks NEIL GRAY into M65 pages to fill, and I thought I’d do an article on the World ARTHUR KAPOULITSA into M65 Championships that were held in Gateshead UK in 1999. ALAN LUCAS into M65 It was one of the Games that were remembered fondly NORMAN McLENNAN into M60 by those who went and I hope you enjoy what I’ve dug WILLIAM RONALD into M60 up. Make sure you take a look at the record of South EWEN WILSON into M60 Australian sprinter Anne Cooper. Quite an amazing re- PETER FIELD into M55 cord over 20 years of competition. JANE STURZAKER into W50 Heather Carr has written another profile for the STACEY VAN DUEREN into W55 “Introducing” series and I thank her for that. This time DAVID WILKINS into M55 it’s about Max Brook, a natural athlete who has been ac- KAREN ARCHER into W50 tive all of his life. DEE BIRD into W50 VICKI CHARLES into W50 A Merry Christmas to all our readers PAUL CONNOR into M50 TONY DELL into M50 MARK LINDSEY THOMAS into M50 Russ Dickenson PETER NEALE into M45 FABRIZIO ROMEO into M45 JULIUS WEITSZ into M45 NINA FIELD into W40 3 Masterpieces Last Monday night - November 26th - saw the open- ing night of a new venue we are trialling at Casey Fields. At right is photo of the excellent facilities there and below is the group who attended. Casey Fields is at 160 Berwick – Cranbourne Rd, Cranbourne East (Melway Ref: 134 E8) Start time is 7.00pm. Contact Paul Olsson on 0408 340 151 or [email protected] What’s On 2012 December 19th Doran Medal Springvale Venue - Ross Reserve, Memorial Drive, Noble Park 2013 January 16th Lindsay Thomas Memorial 10k Run - 7pm - Braeside Park – Melway 88 D7 January 20th Coburg 12k or 6k Fun Run. - 9am - Harold Stevens Athletic track, Melway18 A10 February 6th Andy Salter Memorial Relay - 7pm - Ross Reserve, Memorial Drive, Noble Park February 20th The Landy Trophy - Rieschieks Reserve, George Street, East Doncaster, Melway 33 J11 March 3 VMA Track and Field Pentathlon – Duncan Mackinnon March 10 Coburg 6 Hour Ultra Run/Walk - 8am Start. - Harold Stevens Athletic track March 11 Manningham Mile - Rieschieks Reserve, George Street, East Doncaster, Melway 33 J11 March 16-17 Victorian Masters Track and Field Championships – Note East Burwood Venue March 24 Throws Pentathlon - Duncan Mackinnon April 13-14 Coburg 24 Hour Carnival - 24 Hour Run/Walk - Harold Stevens Athletic track August 2-11 World Masters Games Torino (Turin) - www.torino2013wmg.org October 5-12 Australian Masters Games, Geelong - www.australianmastersgames.com October 15 - 27 World Masters Athletics Championships - Porto Alegre, Brazil - www.wma2013.com 4 Masterpieces The 2013 Victorian Masters Track and Field Championships have been confirmed for 16-17 March and will be held at the newly reconstructed East Burwood Venue. Speaking of East Burwood, Alan Lucas advises that the work at the EB track will be completed in about 2 weeks time and that the EB venue will resume at EB on Thursday Jan 10th at 7pm. We would love to see as many visitors as possible to help us rebuild our numbers after 14 months away. We will have a special “Back to East Burwood Night” in February and will have more details for the February edition. Well done to all those stalwarts who have kept the Venue alive during this difficult time. ACTVAC will be conducting the annual Australian Masters Athletics Track and Field Championships at Easter in 2013. The year 2013 is the Centenary of Canberra, so this will be an excellent opportunity for you to be part of the festivities. A special purpose website has been built for the championships. The website is found at https://sites.google.com/site/ama2013canberra This website provides links for event registration and results, contains information about timetables and venues, and has plenty of other helpful information. We have had a request for information regarding the whereabouts of the Fred Lester Mile Trophy. If anybody has any information please contact Footprints. Do you know about the Doran Medal ? It will be held on the 19th December at Springvale Venue. It’s a really fun evening where Tony Doran is dressed in disgusting rags (barely distiguishable from his usual garb) and carried into the room with much fanfare. Visitors can’t win the medal, but can go along for a good time. AMA advises that all current World and Australian Records up to 25 November 2012 are now available on the AMA website. That address is www.australianmastersathletics.org.au/ You know you’ve made it when you’ve got a trophy named after you, or does it just mean you’re getting old ? Just kidding, Heather. Anyhow, the Victorian Race- walking Club has a trophy for Masters Women named after Heather Carr. It’s predecesor, the Stella Murnane Trophy, was won by Heather so regularly that they decided to name the new one after her when the old trophy filled up. Here is Heather presenting it to Pam Tindal with placegetters Kylie Irshad and Donna Elms. Pam has now won the trophy 3 times in the last 5 years. 5 Masterpieces I’ve mentioned Canada’s Ed Whitlock a few times in Footprints and he’s given me reason to mention him again. Ed, 81, added to his collection of world records in September by running 1:38:59 at a half marathon in his hometown of Mil- ton, Ontario. Whitlock broke the old 80+ mark by 29 seconds, despite resuming regular running only in the weeks before the race. Whitlock fell on ice last November and broke a rib, one month after lowering his 80+ marathon world record to 3:15:54. He missed months of training and didn’t resume his famed routine of daily two- to three-hour runs in a nearby cemetery until mid- summer. “I have had injury issues all this year and I am not in 100% shape,” Whitlock wrote to Runner’s World Newswire. “I was relieved to beat the half record as I thought it would be touch and go considering my less than optimum training. The course was flat and weather conditions were very good, little wind and low temperatures.” If you want to see this amazing athlete run go to this link - www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPyMaDkKYjg&playnext=1&list=PLC EB76551FE0B4260&feature=results_main Editor - This record is in the same category as Stacey Van Dueren’s record. Not recognised by the WMA Alright, alright, I’ve got too much time on my hands, but I was a big Beatles fan and I thought why not have some real walkers doing the crossing in the Abbey Road album cover.